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...what should be done now? The U.N. raised $300 million from the U.S. and other Western countries to pay for the Afghan elections. The taxpayers from these countries surely expected the U.N. to spend their money on honest elections, not fraudulent ones. And countries sending troops to Afghanistan surely expected the U.N. to support elections that would put Afghanistan on a path to democracy and stability, not ones making the military mission incomparably more difficult. It is ridiculous to argue, as senior U.N. officials do now, that the U.N. had no authority to insist that the Afghan authorities conduct honest...
...able to close the Afghanistan-Pakistan border," Gromyko declared in February 1987, "so we need to end this war." (Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Mike Mullen warned last month, "We have this safe haven in a sovereign country that is threatening, plotting against Americans and other Western countries, and it must be eliminated.") See TIME's photo-essay "On the Frontlines in the Battle Against the Taliban...
...border with Pakistan. Although the attack was orchestrated by the Sunni extremist group Jundullah - a separatist organization based among the Baluchi ethnic group that spans the Iran-Pakistan border and has for years conducted low-key terrorism strikes - many in Tehran blamed the bombing on a covert campaign by Western intelligence agencies to destabilize Iran. And that could cast a shadow over President Barack Obama's delicately poised effort to engage Iran in search of a solution to the nuclear standoff...
...Satan America and its ally Britain" and vowed revenge. The speaker of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijani, blamed the attack on "U.S. action" and "America's animosity against our country." The State Department repudiated any suggestion of U.S. involvement and condemned the attack. But focusing on the allegation of Western support for Jundullah may be a sign that hard-liners in Iran intend to use the attack for their own purposes, justifying a crackdown on internal opposition and possibly striking a more hostile pose in dealing with the U.S. as nuclear negotiations get under way. (See pictures of Iran...
...Despite the long-standing tensions between Tehran and the Baluchis - as well as other minorities that, together, make up almost half of Iran's population - the authorities were quick to blame the attack on outsiders. Besides condemning alleged Western support for Jundullah, the Iranian government sharply criticized Pakistan, from whose territory the bombers were said to have entered Iran, and demanded that Islamabad act against the group...